Summer Reading with the Diehls

In this episode of The T.S. Eliot Experience, married English teachers Adam & Whitney Diehl discuss the first post-Waste Land poem "The Hollow Men," as well as the last section of "The Waste Land": What the Thunder Said.

On episode 5 of The T.S. Eliot Experience, married English teachers Adam & Whitney Diehl discuss the "little old man" of a poem "Gerontion" alongside parts III & IV of "The Waste Land": The Fire Sermon + Death by Water.

On this episode of The T.S. Eliot Experience, married English teachers Adam & Whitney Diehl discuss the pre-conversion poems "The Preludes" and "Rhapsody on a Windy Night." They also tackle part 3 of "The Waste Land": "The Fire Sermon."

In this episode of Summer Reading with the Diehls, married English teachers Adam & Whitney Diehl discuss T.S. Eliot's pre-London poem "Portrait of a Lady" and the second section of "The Waste Land": A Game of Chess.

In the first episode to cover T.S. Eliot's poetry, married English teachers Adam & Whitney Diehl discuss the first major poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" and the first section of "The Waste Land": The Burial of the Dead.

In this opening episode of the long-awaited Season 5 of Summer Reading With The Diehls, married English teachers Adam & Whitney Diehl discuss their choice for the season: T.S. Eliot. Join us this season for deep dives and explorations into Eliot's poems, including his magnum opus "The Waste Land."

On this "way cool" final episode of Season 4, English teachers Adam + Whitney Diehl discuss the title Mrs. Dalloway (the 1925 novel by Virginia Woolf, FYI) for as close to 90 minutes as possible!

"When millions of things had utterly vanished"--including the counting of hours in these episodes!--English teachers Adam + Whitney Diehl continue to discuss Virginia Woolf's 1925 novel Mrs. Dalloway.

Another Hour, another episode of English teachers Adam + Whitney Diehl discussing Virginia Woolf's 1925 novel Mrs. Dalloway. This time, we focus on the characters (again)!

On the Third Hour (GMT), English teachers Adam + Whitney Diehl discuss Virginia Woolf's 1925 novel Mrs. Dalloway.

On the second (or third?) Hour of Season 4, Adam + Whitney Diehl continue to discuss Virginia Woolf's 1925 novel Mrs. Dalloway--w/r/t the prose/poetry/language/phrasing/syntax/readability. Is it "like running one's face against a granite wall in the darkness"????

On the second...Hour of Season 4, Adam + Whitney Diehl discuss Virginia Woolf's 1925 Novel Mrs. Dalloway.

On the zero-dark-thirty episode of Season 4 of Summer Reading with the Diehls, English teachers Adam and Whitney Diehl begin their discussion of Virginia Woolf's 1925 novel Mrs. Dalloway. 

Married English teachers discuss the opening monastery scene, the "onion" scene, and the "most important chapter in the novel," the "Cana at Galilee" scene in Fyodor Dostoevsky's magnum opus, The Brothers Karamazov. Thank you for listening!!!

Married English teachers Adam and Whitney Diehl discuss "The Grand Inquisitor" and "Ivan's Dream with the Devil" from Fyodor Dostoevsky's magnum opus, The Brothers Karamazov. 

Married English teachers Adam and Whitney Diehl discuss the "minor" characters in Fyodor Dostoevsky's magnum opus, The Brothers Karamazov.

Married English Teachers Adam and Whitney Diehl discuss the women (and sisters?) of Fyodor Dostoevsky's magnum opus, The Brothers Karamazov.

Married English teachers Adam and Whitney Diehl discuss the hero of Fyodor Dostoevsky's magnum opus, The Brothers Karamazov.

Married English teachers Adam and Whitney Diehl discuss the Emotional Superman Dmitri Fyodorovich Karamazov (aka the Big Stepper) from Fyodor Dostoevsky's magnum opus, The Brothers Karamazov. 

English teacher spouses Adam and Whitney Diehl discuss the intellectual superman Ivan Fyodorovich Karamazov from Fyodor Dostoevsky's magnum opus, The Brothers Karamazov. Picture unrelated!

Married English Teachers Adam and Whitney Diehl discuss the two fathers of Fyodor Dostoevsky's magnum opus, The Brothers Karamazov: Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov + Father Zosima!

English teacher spouses Adam and Whitney Diehl discuss the opening pages of Fyodor Dostoevsky's magnum opus, The Brothers Karamazov. They also discuss the (quite) memorable narrator...aka the True Detective?

In the opening episode of Season 3, English teacher spouses Adam and Whitney Diehl discuss why (on Earth!) they chose Fyodor Dostoevsky's magnum opus, The Brothers Karamazov.

On this Omega episode of Summer Reading with the Diehls, English teacher spouses Adam & Whitney Diehl discuss and reflect upon the captured lightning that is Flannery O'Connor's collection Everything That Rises Must Converge.

On this episode of Summer Reading with the Diehls, English teacher spouses Adam & Whitney Diehl discuss the humbling, hilarious, and beautiful story "Revelation" from Flannery O'Connor's collection Everything That Rises Must Converge.